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babylonsister

(172,737 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:01 AM Yesterday

Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters



https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/17/trump-has-lost-working-class-white-voters/

Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters
March 17, 2026 at 8:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


G. Elliot Morris: “In our data, this group recalled voting for Trump by 22 points in 2024. But these voters now give him a net approval of -4 — or a 26-point swing against him.”

“The working-class whites who powered Trump’s rise are, for the first time, opposed to how he’s handling his job as president.
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Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters (Original Post) babylonsister Yesterday OP
LOL...not the ones I know, unfortunately Prairie Gates Yesterday #1
Same here. He's still their guy. Diamond_Dog 23 hrs ago #2
These voters are going down with the ship WSHazel 23 hrs ago #4
Same here. All my extended family members City Lights 21 hrs ago #11
Same. n/t Coventina 21 hrs ago #13
The magaloons i know are still entrenched in their cult leaders kimbutgar 20 hrs ago #16
They love that he's a fuck up, he's one of them. dem4decades 23 hrs ago #3
There's always enough brain dead voters to keep his dictatorship going if enough voter suppression happens yaesu 23 hrs ago #5
Endlessly weird to me that people deny the political realities of all this. BannonsLiver 23 hrs ago #6
People gotta have their Kool-Aid. nt Trueblue Texan 2 hrs ago #25
I'll admit that neighbors and coworkers who had been loudly defending his behavior and actions Torchlight 23 hrs ago #7
He has not... rustbeltvoice 23 hrs ago #8
+1 leftstreet 20 hrs ago #14
They're still OK with becoming a fascist nation..... 70sEraVet 21 hrs ago #9
They enjoyed the hell out of tearing up our government institutions & national security ffr 21 hrs ago #10
I have them in my family, which is why I live 2000 miles away Hassler 21 hrs ago #12
Most that I know are sticking with the idiot Norbert 20 hrs ago #15
I'm betting they'll feel differently once they're in that voting booth and it really counts. Xavier Breath 19 hrs ago #17
But probably not white working class males senseandsensibility 19 hrs ago #18
Convinced people to vote against their own interests hibbing 16 hrs ago #19
"Is it all because of race?" Solomon 3 hrs ago #24
Yes, I do believe it's race and gender. BlueKota 2 hrs ago #27
Fuck em LuvLoogie 15 hrs ago #20
All the way to the scene of the crash OC375 14 hrs ago #21
It's about fucking time they woke up and smelled the coffee. Martin68 12 hrs ago #22
Too little... too late. OldBaldy1701E 3 hrs ago #23
Don't need them to vote Dem... Just stay home JT45242 2 hrs ago #26
In the State of Ohio samplegirl 1 hr ago #28

WSHazel

(746 posts)
4. These voters are going down with the ship
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:12 AM
23 hrs ago

White working class is getting more dug in.

White collar Republicans, on the other hand, are giving up on Trump and the GOP. The Democrats will win the midterms in the suburbs and big cities. The white working class towns and small cities are gone.

kimbutgar

(27,198 posts)
16. The magaloons i know are still entrenched in their cult leaders
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:57 PM
20 hrs ago

propaganda and his lies. He can do no wrong and Iran threatened us they say!

yaesu

(9,264 posts)
5. There's always enough brain dead voters to keep his dictatorship going if enough voter suppression happens
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:14 AM
23 hrs ago

and it will happen is the fascist state big time.

BannonsLiver

(20,526 posts)
6. Endlessly weird to me that people deny the political realities of all this.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:17 AM
23 hrs ago

And I’m talking about the people on this side of the fence who won’t accept the reality this is bad politics for him based solely on their own little anecdotal bubbles. There’s always some low info, low energy, intellectually lazy AF quip that is almost always utterly pointless. At least get some new lines, FFS.

Torchlight

(6,757 posts)
7. I'll admit that neighbors and coworkers who had been loudly defending his behavior and actions
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:23 AM
23 hrs ago

have all fallen back on “what about?” arguments over the course of the past two months. Support for the war is rapidly declining, even among his own base, leaving only a small, unfortunate group to continue insisting it's a valid and rational course of action despite the reality that the village idiot is in charge.

rustbeltvoice

(481 posts)
8. He has not...
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:35 AM
23 hrs ago

unfortunately the term is partly a euphemism for racist, and he will not lose that segment. There wasn't much before, but after Hoover's Depression began (1929), there has been no reason for any member of the "white working class" to vote for a Republican; with Orange Caligula's beyond obvious evil, moreso. Some may think, i have gone too far writing that. I have not.

ffr

(23,383 posts)
10. They enjoyed the hell out of tearing up our government institutions & national security
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 12:33 PM
21 hrs ago

But now GOP pocketbook policies are killing their bank accounts too. Oh no, they're feeling the pain they celebrated for others. Boo-hoo!

EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN.

Hassler

(4,910 posts)
12. I have them in my family, which is why I live 2000 miles away
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 12:58 PM
21 hrs ago

Anecdotally, the shitty MAGA flags have disappeared from my neighborhood. They're humiliated by him, but won't quit him. Think of little Marco in his clown shoes.

Norbert

(7,732 posts)
15. Most that I know are sticking with the idiot
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 01:12 PM
20 hrs ago

The other day one of them couldn't figure out why Iran has such control over the Strait of Hormuz. I told him to look at a map of the region. It isn't that difficult to understand. DAMN.

hibbing

(10,583 posts)
19. Convinced people to vote against their own interests
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 05:07 PM
16 hrs ago

Reagan really did a number on our party. Remember "Reagan Democrats"? The Republican party and their friends in the media have somehow convinced many people to vote against their own economic self-interest. Is it all because of race?

BlueKota

(5,306 posts)
27. Yes, I do believe it's race and gender.
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 07:59 AM
2 hrs ago

Not all white men, but a lot of them are butt hurt that Democrats have been trying to level the playing field for people of color and women. Tsf tapped into their chest thumping rage, and their fear of becoming the minority. They don't want to loose their majority. Maybe they fear all the races and genders they helped suppress will turn the tables on them. It's funny how offended some of them act, when they are called racist or sexist, and they will deny it. Yet they aren't ashamed of themselves for their racist statements and actions.

I also include the women who love them. The ones who have the 1950s sitcom fantasies of being the perfect sweet little house wife who exists only to please her man, and let him make all those "hard decisions," so she feels "protected". 😒

OC375

(841 posts)
21. All the way to the scene of the crash
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:20 PM
14 hrs ago

Everyone has already taken sides in their hearts. Figureheads matter little.

Alea iacta est

OldBaldy1701E

(11,035 posts)
23. Too little... too late.
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 06:04 AM
3 hrs ago

That lot is just trying to follow the age old. military creed: CYA. (Cover Your Ass!)

They know he is not long for this world, and they are finally seeing that their 'messiah' is nothing of the kind. They are embarrassed and upset that he is not being enough of a racist here at home and he is not getting rid of 'the other' that is doing nothing more than actually contributing as opposed to the more... pasty... constituents who are trying to get rid of them.

They can sense what is coming. (At least what had damned well better be coming.)

Sorry, sycophants, you are part of the problem. The fact that you think we are going to just let you back into the society of human beings is pretty darn funny.

To quote Dredd: "Justice Time."

JT45242

(4,019 posts)
26. Don't need them to vote Dem... Just stay home
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 07:30 AM
2 hrs ago

If that group sits out the midterms, will be a huge blue wave.

Especially if they stay home in Texas.

Taking a Senate seat in texas and potentially undoing the gerrymandered maps in texas alone make a huge difference towards true democracy

samplegirl

(13,930 posts)
28. In the State of Ohio
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 08:45 AM
1 hr ago

They still dominate and don't want to lose their power.
It's so disgusting to see so many people still following the cult.
Republicans rule in N.E. Ohio
I was hoping gas and groceries would change their peas sized brains but not a chance.

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